mark1mint wrote:I've read in the web feed a couple of days ago that UP5 was not yet safe if using the ATI fglrx proprietary driver,now looking at the current page the warning is gone,does this mean that the latest ATI driver is in UP5 now?If so,would it be safe to upgrade now or there are known bugs for this driver?

just noticed that when you pointed out edit: the notification area is there but the volume icon is not (after applying the mate1.4 updatesedit2: installing mint-meta-debian-mate (as advised in the UP notes solved this issue)

Just noticed here too that volume control was gone. In my case, mint-meta-debian-mate was already installed. So was mate-applets-common. But mate-applets was "rc" (removed, config kept), so it must've been removed during upgrade. Installing mint-applets manually resolved this issue (added volume control manually to notification area afterwards).

Edit: I see now that mint-meta-debian-mate is updated, and replaces mint-media-gstreamer with mint-media-pulse. ---

An issue with mate-power-manager. Occasionally, after waking up from resume/hibernate, clicking the battery status indicator in notification area shows duplicate battery entries. And since I enabled notification of full charge, it would notify me that "batteries are fully charged" (plural), though I only have 1 battery. The problem is of course resolved with a reboot.

notty wrote:My only complaint is that UP5 is taking 3 times longer to update than it would to install and configure a fresh copy of Mint. This isn't counting the download time.

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Fresh copy of Mint isn't installed from packages. It is already decompressed and pre-configured. Just copied from DVD. That's why you can't select which packages you want to install.Installing from downloaded packages takes much longer, as you have to decompress new files, remove old ones, replace and configure them - it means *lots* of random I/O on single drive.Watch IOWait during update process. If it is high - your HDD is just not fast enough.

And apt-get is indeed much slower than opensuse zypper - it took about about 20 minutes to update my system even on SSD.I presume all distributions using apt share this "problem".

- Mint-X-Metal was replaced by Mint-X (part of the mint-themes packages)- In MATE the sound applet comes from mate-media-pulse (along with mate-settings-daemon-pulse)- The fonts in UP4 were using the Ubuntu patches.... pinning libcairo and fontconfig was tedious though and that wasn't done in UP5. So what you're seeing now in UP5 are the Debian fonts basically. Ideally Debian would have that fixed... of course we all know that's not going to happen any time soon, so we'll need to find a better way to tackle this issue.

clem wrote:pinning libcairo and fontconfig was tedious though and that wasn't done in UP5

Oh. Do you mean the old libcairo and fontconfig (1.10.x/2.8.x) or the new ones from Quantal (1.12.x/2.10.x)?I know the old ones couldn't be used anymore because some programs now require libfontconfig1 >= 2.9.0... but what about the new ones?

Jumping to the end of this thread and not surfing the other 12 pages, it would seem that everyone has a font issue. Somebody PLEASE!!! fix this! I thought by installing the True Type installer in Synaptic that it solved this issue. Apparently not.

I extracted the /fonts folder from it and copied over /etc/fonts, and merged it with etc/fonts, overwriting all files that required overwriting/replacing.

I absolutely have no idea yet if this has broken anything. I note that we're using version 2.9.0-6. I didn't find a like ubuntu version of that so I went up to the next higher available that I could find. I guess another option might be to go back to ubuntu 2.8.0-3. ??? Maybe someone can locate a ubuntu 2.9.0-6 version?

Outside of the fact that it immediately improved my font rendering, I have no idea if this is actually a viable workaround. I will use it for a while and see how everything performs.

This is the first thing I did after installing UP5 and noticed an immediate improvement in font rendering (looks just like UP4). It's been a few days now and haven't seen anything bad happen as a result.

BTW, I used fontconfig-config_2.8.0-2.1ubuntu3_all.deb, not a later version.

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